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BUILDING FORM (7 Adams Street) <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of the building in terms of other buildings within the <br /> community. <br /> Set above Adams Street atop a low hill, 7 Adams Street is a large 2 1/2-story Colonial-Revival dwelling which is capped by a <br /> hipped roof with eaves which are flared slightly. Resting on a stone foundation with a raised bead mortar,the building is <br /> clapboarded, with a wide wooden watertable and overhanging eaves. Centered on the long, principal north facade is a two- <br /> story,three sided projection which is capped by a conical roof. In front of the projection is a porte cochere which is <br /> supported by Roman Doric columns which rest on an ashlar stone wall that does not match the foundation of the house. The <br /> porte cochere is topped by balled newel posts with a stick balustrade and a two-part, wide frieze. One pilaster is visible <br /> adjacent to the front door with the other located next to the three-sided projection. Sheltered by the porte cochere the glass- <br /> and-panel door displays a molded surround with a pulvinated frieze and full entablature. Most of the windows contain 1/1 <br /> sash set in molded surrounds and flanked by louvered blinds. Two shingled hip dormers rise from the front roof slope. <br /> Facing the street, the west end of the house has a two-story,three-sided projection to the north. The adjacent window <br /> openings include 1/1 sash with a tripartite window opeming on the first floor and a paired opening above. On the roof above <br /> there are two shingled hip dormers connected by a shingled wall decorated by a diamond pattern. A single-story, flat-roofed <br /> sunporch projects from the south wall, articulated by paired corner pilasters with a filled balustrade. <br /> At the rear of the house is a hip-roofed, clapboarded garage/carriage house(constructed in 1904)with three overhead garage <br /> doors on the north side. The building is lit by 6/6 windows and a brick chimney rises from the roof. <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE <br /> Describe the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state) history. Include uses of the building and <br /> the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. <br /> This house was constructed in 1898 for Melissa E. Downer, widow of Francis Downer. According to an article appearing in <br /> the Lexington Minute-man on May 13, 1898,the house was then nearing completion and was constructed by a builder named <br /> McKay. The article describes the exterior of the house as "plain and substantial,"noting that the decorative effect is confined <br /> to the interior. The site is described as having a magnificent view westward over the Whiting place (a reference to the house <br /> preceding the present 8 Adams Street, MHC4697). The article also offers a detailed description of the interior arrangement <br /> (Minute-man, May 13, 1898). <br /> Mrs. Downe, continued to live in the house until about 1922. It was later owned by Edward and Barbara Childs from the <br /> mid 1920s until about 1950. Edward Childs was a meat wholesaler. The house has had five owners since 1960. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Lexington Assessors Records. <br /> / Lexington Directories, various dates. <br /> Lexington Minute-man, May 13, 1898. <br /> Lexington Valuation Lists, various dates. <br /> Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attached a completed <br /> National Register Criteria Statement form. <br />
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